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Originally Posted by MetalMan
One problem with the HV that will pretty much always steer me away from it: the BEC operates off of only one of your two battery packs. This means it drains that pack faster, which essentially removes the possiblity of charging both packs together without heavy cell equalizing from the balancer.
I haven't looked into it, but I suppose you could bypass this by plugging both packs (or a single large pack) into the non-BEC side, and powering the ESC with a RX pack or UBEC. But even still, I'd much rather spend my money elsewhere...
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That is probably my only complaint about them. I continually see one of my packs drained dangerously close to failure - but it doesnt appear to be consistent to any one side (but I still need to do more testing to determine this). I really think this is why I killed a couple of my new A123 packs, and a couple of my NiMH packs. I now have to pull my packs the second I notice any drop in performance from 100%. "Charlie" at Novak once told me that the HV system was really hard on NiMH packs, but didnt elaborate on why - I wonder if this was the reason.
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